I’m trying…

I’m trying to keep my past and still live in the present.

 

“And trying to make up for all I’ve sinned.

It’s like walking against the wind,

And now I feel nature’s brute force.

You have to let nature take its true course.”

 

Those who have lived long know this song.

The wise know Nature’s song.

 

 

 

It went by in a thunderclap,

Before my fingers could snap,

Time has gone before my grasp.

 

Visions of the past,

Nature has me trapped.

And as I sleep,

I dream this dream –

Friends I have left and friends who have left me,

Nature’s clouds are souls that roam free,

And they don’t respect human memory.

 

As the sun shines on the best days,

The darkness of dusk takes smiles away.

 

For those hours when the sun didn’t shine,

Feelings went off as absence of benign.

 

Unbending like the strong breeze,

Nature’s clouds are souls that roam free.

Trapped in the past of my memories delight,

And I can’t fight –

Nature has a way of warping destiny.

 

All the childhood memories…

 

Gone in an instant and cherished no longer.

Under the guise it makes us stronger,

But I see Nature’s fury,

Trying to make us grow in a hurry.

And as I sleep –

Visions of the past I see.

Friends I’ve left and friends who have left me.

 

 

 

“Can’t stop myself from dying,

But still I’m trying…

Forgive me for I have sinned,

It’s impossible to walk against the wind.

 

I won’t deny it.

Can’t stop myself from dying,

But still I’m trying…

Forgive me for I have sinned,

It’s impossible to walk against the wind.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And crashing waves of a crying soul

Are swept by the moon’s tide, all so bold

Nature builds and destroys

Memories and bonds seem void

Nature will lead lives to waste

And turns the world with such grace

Men who died and those who take their place

Nature is to be loved by the young

But the elderly turn tail and run

Because they have lived to know Nature’s song

They know Nature’s song

They know Nature’s song

 

 

 

“Can’t stop myself from dying

But still I’m trying

Forgive me for I have sinned

It’s impossible to walk against the wind

 

I won’t deny it

Can’t stop myself from dying

But still I’m trying

Forgive me for I have sinned

It’s impossible to walk against the wind”

 

 

 

 

It can happen in a flash,

It’s like that –

A life is lost and nature isn’t listening.

Everywhere I turn, another friend is missing,

Memories are the only ones to escape time’s wrath…

 

Slowly losing it all to nature’s grasp,

Nature’s devious task,

Trying to take away my past,

It can happen in a flash.

It’s like that…

 

You lose it all…

 

Nothing lasts forever,

I learned that the hard way.

Running against the wind,

Fighting the storm,

Trying to defy the inevitable.

You have to let nature take its course,

Know this and you have become wise.

Knowledge alone empowers and shields,

You will no longer be fooled by Nature’s song.

 

 

 

 

Written by Thorne McFarlane